• Voters from both parties encouraged to contact Congress and urge audit.

By Mark Anderson—

As this newspaper announced in issue No. 49 & 50 in 2015, United States Senator Randal Howard “Rand” Paul (R-Ky.) is still floating legislation to audit the Federal Reserve System. We asked readers to contact Capitol Hill and urge a vote, and it appears our efforts, with other Fed foes, have paid off.

A Senate Fed-audit vote has been scheduled for January 12. The most viable of Paul’s two audit bills introduced in 2015 is S. 2232, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2015. One year ago, in January 2015, he introduced S. 264, which carries the same name, but that bill, according to the Library of Congress, never left the Senate Banking Committee.

Paul, who’s also a Republican presidential candidate, announced on his Facebook page: “I’ve . . . been told that when the Senate returns on January 12th, we will vote on auditing the Fed. I’ve been fighting for years to get this vote. This is a huge victory for us. But it’s still an uphill battle from here to get full transparency from the Fed. Let’s gear up and let’s really fight to make this important change.”

Among the 24 all-GOP official co-sponsors, according to the Library of Congress as of December 26, are Paul’s rival Republican presidential candidates, Senators Marco Antonio Rubio (Fla.) and Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz (Texas). It’s apparently unheard of for three presidential hopefuls to call for legislation targeting the Fed, be it an audit or anything else.

On a video accompanying his Facebook announcement, regarding who’s “on board” for this vote, Paul noted: “We don’t have all the Republicans yet, much less all the Democrats.”

The S. 2232 text states that its purpose is: “To require a full audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve banks by the Comptroller General of the United States, and for other purposes.”

If the bill becomes law, an audit would be required within 12 months after enactment. A report on the audit’s results would be required within 90 days after the audit is done.

Voters from either major party should call Capitol Hill and get more senators on board. Independent voters should do the same. Unity across party lines is possible.

An audit may be a worthwhile way to help break the Federal Reserve’s stranglehold on the nation’s monetary policy and on the greater economy, because a proper in-depth audit could reveal Fed manipulations that would shock more lawmakers and citizens out of their complacency toward the central bank. However, ending the Fed must remain our goal.

When private bankers steal the critically important sovereign function of creating money, and then are allowed to regulate the banking system on top of that, drastic restorative measures are needed to divorce the Fed, terminate its debt-based money system and publicly re-issue interest-free United States notes—much like President Andrew Jackson did when he terminated the private Second Bank of the United States in 1836 and moved money creation back to the sovereign government.

Paul noted on his presidential campaign website: “The Federal Reserve was created by Congress and is supposed to be overseen by Congress. The Fed is now in every nook and cranny of banking with unprecedented regulatory powers and no congressional oversight. I believe the . . . regulatory power should be placed back under the control of Congress.”

Notably, there was little evidence at press time of Senate Democrats publicly supporting this legislation. When the earlier bill (S. 264) first came up, even so-called banking watchdog Senator Elizabeth Ann Warren (D-Mass.) did not support it while pathetically parroting the Fed’s official line that any monetary-policy oversight by Congress would “politicize” the Fed’s decisions, typical “codespeak” the Fed uses to deflect deeper oversight. Warren would simply allow the already required basic audit of the Fed’s balance sheets to continue without a deeper look at the all-important monetary policy.

To ask for any Senate or House member by name, call Capitol Hill’s switchboard at 202-224-3121 or 225-3121. Standard mail can be addressed: “Name of legislator,” followed by Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510, or “Name of legislator,” House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515.

Mark Anderson covers the annual Bilderberg meetings and is chairman of AFP’s new America First Action Committee, designed to involve AFP readers in focusing intensely on Congress to enact key changes, including monetary reform and a pullback of the warfare state. He and his wife Angie often work together on news projects.

We Really Don’t Need the Federal Reserve

Stocks rose on Wednesday, December 16, following the Federal Reserve’s announcement of the first interest rate increase since 2006. However, stocksfell just two days later. One reason the positive reaction to the Fed’s announcement did not last long is that the Fedseems to lack confidence in the economy and is unsure what policies it should adopt in the future.

At her Wednesday press conference, FederalReserve Chair Janet Yellen acknowledged continuing “cyclical weakness” in the job market. Shealso suggested that future rate increases are likely to be as small, or even smaller, than Wednesday’s.However, she also expressed concerns over increasing inflation, which suggests the Fed may be open to bigger rate increases.

Many investors and those who rely on interestfrom savings for a substantial part of their income cheered the increase. However, others expressedconcern that even this small rate increase will weaken the already fragile job market.

These critics echo the claims of many economistsand economic historians who blame past economic crises, including the Great Depression,on ill-timed money tightening by the Fed. While the Federal Reserve is responsible for our boom-busteconomy, recessions and depressions are not caused by tight monetary policy. Instead, the real cause of economic crisis is the loose money policiesthat precede the Fed’s tightening.

When the Fed floods the market with artificiallycreated money, it lowers the interest rates, which are the price of money. As the price ofmoney, interest rates send signals to businesses and investors regarding the wisdom of makingcertain types of investments. When the rates are artificially lowered by the Fed instead of naturally lowered by the market, businesses and investorsreceive distorted signals. The result is over-investment in certain sectors of the economy, suchas housing.

This creates the temporary illusion of prosperity. However, since the boom is rooted in the Fed’s manipulation of the interest rates, eventuallythe bubble will burst and the economy will slide into recession. While the Federal Reserve may tighten the money supply before an economicdownturn, the tightening is simply a futile attempt to control the inflation resulting from theFed’s earlier increases in the money supply.

After the bubble inevitably bursts, the Federal Reserve will inevitability try to revive the economy via new money creation, which starts thewhole boom-bust cycle all over again. The only way to avoid future crashes is for the Fed to stopcreating inflation and bubbles.

Some economists and policy makers claim that the way to stop the Federal Reserve from causing economic chaos is not to end the Fed but to forcethe Fed to adopt a “rules-based” monetary policy. Adopting rules-based monetary policy may seemlike an improvement, but, because it still allows a secretive central bank to manipulate the money supply, it will still result in Fed-created boomsand busts.

The only way to restore economic stability andavoid a major economic crisis is to end the Fed, or at least allow Americans to use alternative currencies.Fortunately, more Americans than ever are working to change our monetary system.

Thanks to the efforts of this growing anti-Fedmovement, Audit the Fed had twice passed the House of Representatives, and the Senate isscheduled to vote on it on January 12. Auditing the Fed, so the American people can finally learn thefull truth about the Fed’s operations, is an important first step in restoring a sound monetary policy. Hopefully, the Senate will take that step and pass Audit the Fed in January.

One Response to Audit Fed Bill Vote Slated for January 12; We Really Don’t Need the Fed

The Federal Reserve System was secretly conceived in 1910 in Jekyll Island, Georgia, by a group made up of government officials and Zionist Jewish bankers, and headed by Senator Nelson Aldrich, head of the National Monetary Commission, A. Piatt Andrew, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Special Assistant of the National Monetary Commission; Frank Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank of New York, Henry P. Davison, senior partner of J.P. Morgan Company, and generally regarded as Morgan’s personal emissary; and Charles D. Norton, president of the Morgan-dominated First National Bank of New York, Benjamin Strong, also known as a lieutenant of J.P. Morgan; and Zionist fake Jew Paul Warburg, a recent immigrant from Germany, and part of a British-American group that would gather in 1919 in Paris, France at the Hotel Majestic to plot and create the Council on Foreign Relations, which today controls the U.S. government, the U.S. Armed Forces, business, finance, commerce, education, religion, and the entertainment, and the mainstream news media.

Paul Warburg informed his colleagues that they must avoid using the name “central bank” at all costs, deciding to use the designation the Federal Reserve System instead, in order to deceive the American people into thinking it was part of the U.S. government, and in line with Edward House’s wishes. Warburg was also credited with the drafting of the bill titled the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which was passed by Congress and signed by President Woodrow Wilson, in accordance to the 5th plank of the Communist Manifesto, stating: “Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.”

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